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10 Dec 2016 1:52:57am

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In March 1953 the Israeli Knesset passed the Land Acquisition Act, which made it legal for Israel to acquire "absentee properties" [land abandoned by Arabs during the 1948 war, some of whom did not leave voluntarily but were expelled by Israeli forces] and properties belonging to "nonabsentee Arabs" [present but absent] if those properties were needed for security or other "developmental projects." In short, the state took upon itself the right to determine "place" in instances that were not solely related to its citizens.